烙

Translingual

Han character

烙 (radical 86 火+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火竹水口 (FHER), four-corner 9786₄)

1. brand, burn
2. branding iron

References

• KangXi: page 670, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19014
• Dae Jaweon: page 1079, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2200, character 16
• Unihan data for U+70D9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

烙 (Yale lok3)

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Japanese

Kanji

烙

Readings

• On: らく (raku), かく (kaku)
• Kun: やく (yaku)

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Korean

Hanja

烙 (hangeul 락>낙, revised rak>nak, McCune-Reischauer rak>nak, Yale lak>nak)

1. to burn
2. to brand

Synonyms

• 燒 (소, so)
• 焠 (쉬, swi)
• 灼 (작, jag)

Compounds

• 烙印 (낙인, nag-in) brand, branding iron; cf. brandmark, Tamga, Runes

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Mandarin

Hanzi

烙 (pinyin lào (lao4), Wade-Giles lo⁴)

Derived terms

• 烙印

Last modified on 22 December 2012, at 09:10